Book 4: Chapter 39: The Nine Gates and the Zhang family

Book 4: Chapter 39: The Nine Gates and the Zhang family

Here is a figurative discussion of Er Yuehongs prediction from that time. If you dont understand it, you can skip this section directly since not all situations need to be understood in order to make sense of this matter.

Poker-Face and the Nine Gates came to an agreement back then, but in the end, the Nine Gates didnt abide by this agreement and Poker-Face did. This breach of trust eventually led Poker-Face to entering the bronze door. I always felt that if I hadn't used the remaining power of the Nine Gates over the past ten years to finally honor this agreement in another way, Poker-Face might have been forced to serve as a gatekeeper for generations.

With his character, he might have really borne that burden for eternity.

In the Nine Gates, Er Ye was a relatively soft person while the women were very tough. In fact, Er Ye's character was far different from others. Even Xiao Hua had been influenced when he studied under Er Ye, because his style was also geared more towards self-sacrifice and heavy commitment.

Er Ye's heavy commitment was an excellent story, so during those ten years, I wasn't the only one who worked hard. Its very difficult for me to describe exactly how much Xiao Hua had helped me during that time, but he never hesitated even though he always had a pessimistic attitude during the whole process. This was all because Xiao Hua also acknowledged the promise made with the Zhang family at that time.

But I didnt blame the other families, either. The relationship between the previous generation of the Mystic Nine and the Zhang family brought about a nightmarish experience. Zhang Qiling's great power didn't protect them, so it was understandable that they felt differently than I did and came to a different decision than I did.

At that time, it was speculated that the Zhang family maintained the world order through some strange mechanism, and the Wang Family destroyed the Zhang family through artificial means so as to return free will to the world.

After that, people from the Wang family tried to replace the Zhang family, but they didnt achieve great success. I felt like the last thing the Wang family did was more like playing house. They deceived themselves into thinking that they were interfering with everyone's fate, but in fact, I personally felt that a sense of freedom had returned to the world.

But no one had ever addressed a certain question: if, like elementary particles(1) being destroyed, both the Wang and Zhang families disappeared and Wang Zanghai's dream came true, what would happen next?

To put it simply, what would happen when no one guarded the door anymore?

At that time, I honestly never thought about the problem of what came next; I only focused my attention on that first level. After all, the biggest problem was obviously the Wang family, so after they were taken care of, Poker-Face didn't have to go inside the door.

In any case, Poker-Faces attitude seemed to be the same and I hadnt noticed anything strange happen after so many years had passed.

But Er Yuehong believed that there must be a huge and unknown mechanism behind the relationship between the Zhang family's magical mechanism and the bronze door.

This was also the reason why the Zhang familys archives mechanism was so strong back then. The Southern and Western Archives, along with the overseas Zhang family system, still operated for many years even after the main branch of the Zhang family disappeared completely. Even Zhang Da Fo Ye, who originally left the Zhang family, assumed responsibility for his lineage and took over the Central Archives, which showed that the Zhang family members knew in their hearts that something would happen.

What about the three of us?

There were many questions floating around in my head, but in the end, this Mongolian woman who was just an outsider to this whole thing clearly wrote the answers in her notes, which made me feel very at ease.

If it were my Uncle Three, I figured Id be even more confused after reading it.

Anyway, I really hoped that my friends would turn out to be fine. I actually felt a little relieved since Xiao Hua and the others were so well prepared, but with such a direct way of offering sacrifices to the head god, I couldnt help but think that Xiao Hua had made a desperate move. Black Glasses,this is your absolute domain. According to you, your ability surpasses Poker-Face in this kind of place. I hope you werent lying.

Then, Xiao Hua and his team went deep into the gap and began to move forward in the dark. Xiao Hua left that walkie-talkie behind with the recording on it, but the woman didn't know why. Shortly after that, they entered the dragon vein and encountered something extremely strange.

When the woman was keeping watch, she always saw her feet hanging in the air, floating in one place.

It seemed as if the darkness under her feet was a deep abyss.

She would find herself in this state when she was absent-minded, but she would quickly recover when she came back to her senses.

She thought that it was too dark here, which made her feel like she was flying.

Only someone who read this notebook now would know that that wasnt the case. In fact, I believed that what she was seeing was the situation that would happen after she was hanged.

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TN Notes:

(1) Ugh, science. In particle physics, an elementary particle is a subatomic particle with no substructure, i.e. its not composed of other particles. Its as basic as you get.

(2) What I have is the Chinese spelling for it but it can also be Nyenchen Tanglha Shan. In the Tibetan language, Nyenchen means big god and Tanglha means mountain on the highland. Shan in Chinese just means mountain by the way.